Example sentences for: yukon

How can you use “yukon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But Laurier saw the limits of British support when the British and American negotiators of the Alaska boundary tamely accepted the US claims to a southern coastal “panhandle,” which denied Canada sea access to the Yukon goldfields.

  • Though a thoroughly modern town with a population of 23,000, the Yukon capital is proud of its Old Log Church on Elliot Street and some three-story log cabins it calls “wooden skyscrapers.”

  • One of them houses the MacBride Museum (First Avenue), with a good collection of gold rush memorabilia and exhibits of Yukon wildlife.

  • From the Yukon, further migrations took them north to the High Arctic, south around Hudson Bay to Manitoba, east to Greenland, and down the Labrador coast to Newfoundland.

  • While the earliest, around 70,000 b.c., moved down the Pacific coast to South America, the settlement of Canada began some 15,000 years after, spreading across the continent from the Yukon and, much later, from British Columbia.


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